Sentences with phrase «even status symbols»

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Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

«I've been accused of being overly restrictive, uptight, even elitist (apparently, fruit is a status symbol these days!)

We have hundreds of examples; one might be that the rainbow used to be a symbol of God's wrath on a decadent society, and another of course would be The Devil himself — once feared by believers and even non-believers alike — but nowdays is consigned along with the Bible and Jesus resurrection to «myth» status and cartoonised as a little man in red pants and a pitch fork.

In addition, growing sales in new markets like China, where high - rise vehicles are even more a status symbol than they are in existing markets, are sure to have cemented the company's decision.

Between safety features and infotainment systems driving up even entry - level vehicles» price tags; and car - hailing apps turning four - wheeled freedom machines into appliances, people 18 to 35 simply don't have a good reason to care about cars, unless they want a luxo - truck as a status symbol.

Do you even know why you want it other than it's a so - called status symbol?

See CDC dog fatalities report from 1979 - 1998, and those numbers have climbed even higher thanks to the ghetto trash who misuse this breed for fighting and as a status symbol.

They are so often used as a status symbol, and even to intimidate rival gangs.

One of the big dangers with the more expensive cards is that people grow attached them and some even see them as status symbols (they're not).

In many cases game creators may not even realize their mechanics are working to cement this mentality, but when games use a woman's affection, her body, or her sexuality as a carrot on a stick, they're actively encouraging men to think of women as objects, prizes, and status symbols.

This winter, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, a ground - breaking exhibition that explores the Greeks» fascination with an animal that served as a symbol of wealth, power, and status in ways that are recognizable and familiar even today.

«They've done a study and they've found that people under 30 no longer view cars as status symbols or even positive things,» Kartheiser told the Times.

I've been designing «green» cars way back before hybrids were a status symbol and way before the Volt was even conceived.

A high - priced Apple Watch — even a gold edition that costs $ 50,000 — could have been a status symbol by the virtue of what it represented beyond itself as a product: a contribution to a charitable foundation or the pursuit of science for the good of humanity.

Even the poorest of people find symbols with which to establish their status.

Andy Oldham, Managing Director of Quidco, who commissioned the research, said «material items go such a long way to showing you are successful that it seems many are buying these status symbols, even if they can't really afford them.»